Better pics of Raw Power Dino

Here's a couple of better pics of the Raw Power Dino I did the other week at Tobacco Factory in Southville. Thanks to Paul Green for letting me use these.





The Dino beastie can be seen in more of it's weird He Man like glory in these shots. Kind of like a steed of Skeletor - 'Beast Man you bumbling fool!', 'Ah He Man!' 'Activate the Null Ray!' etc. Actually, that last quote is Megatron from Transformers I think. I wish I got outside and painted Graff in the 80's instead of watching cartoons and drawing pictures of squirrels with lazer guns.

Bit of painting at Tobacco Factory Bristol

I spent yesterday doing a spot o painting down at the Tobacco Factory in Southville, Bristol. It was a warm up for Upfest and also part of the Southbank Art Trail.

I drew up this sketch where the wall piece would be like one of my text dino's that I have been doing a few of lately.



I thought it would be pretty cool to do a kind of punk rock dragster dinosaur. The text 'Raw Power' is taken from the Iggy and The Stooges album title. I used a font a bit like that of the Kiss logo. The tail, legs and arms are like motorcycle exhausts with flames coming out of them as claws. I put a couple of chainsaws in there too for good measure.

Painting the piece was a bit trickier than I imagined. The Fluro pink paint needed a coat of white under it so that it would stand out, which meant that the piece took longer to do. The space available wasn't too big either and the legs got a bit squashed. I was hoping for more space so that I could make it more painterly like my Stegocactus piece I did recently.

I ended up going for a graphic finish with outlines. It kind of works, but I'm not sure about it. It looks a bit weird like the Terminator or something from He Man. I suppose that isn't a bad thing.



The picture is pretty crappy - only had my camera phone on me. Will try and get hold of a good un to post up soon.

Thanks to Steve, Scott, Jody, Matt, Adam, Jen and everyone else down there. Cheers for the drinks!

Stegacactus

This is a Stegasaurus type beastie made up of cactus plants. It is all painted with spraypaint except for the little spikes, which I did with brush. He is quite a happy, if a little stupid dino as his brain is only the size of a walnut! He has blossom for eyes and horn nose.



Here's the sketch I worked from...



Painted on the wall of the Emporium in Bristol as part of the ‘Stokes Croft Herbarium’ exhibition which mingles together plant specimens with works of art that draw their influence from the plant kingdom -creating the impression of a botanical garden/art gallery hybrid.

Featuring artwork by:
Andy Council
Chris 'Cavetroll' Drury
Evie Wonder
Nicky Cornwell
Tim Floyd

Exhibition opening times:

11am-6pm daily from 11th-18th April.

(Good) Friday 10th April: Opening night -7pm-9pm

There was home-made nettle beer, a box or two of plonk and a bit of music at the exhibition's preview, which was jolly good fun.

Thinking of doing some more spraypaint pieces along the same lines too. Perhaps something like this Triceratops...